By the way, I had some good fortune

It turns out that I won $12 on a Powerball ticket I purchased (I just had the Powerball, but I played the Powerplay, so my winnings were quadrupled). Needless to say, I took the money and ran, rather than playing anything else. That means I've recouped all the money I've every laid out for lottery since I started work at the store 4 1/2 years ago (what can I say, sometimes I catch the fever). I may not have won $260 million like someone did, but I made enough to pay for the ticket and the goat puppet. Yay!